The i7 is faster if something uses more than 4 threads, games that use more than 4 threads are few and far between.

Before you take cracks at me you should probably mosey on over to your gpu score, $100 extra didn't net you much in that department.

Again you seem ill informed, the 990x is not faster in 99% of games, because 99% of games don't use more than 4 cores. Most use less, the 980x is slower than my i5-2500k in Vantage... As far as pushing gpus go.

Like I said, the 2600K is faster

This thread isn't about GPUs And it was you, who started quoting me first

And It was you that mentioned the 980x Edited by ACHILEE5 - 5/6/11 at 1:44am

I don't really think I'd even see many real world gains, and it seems to me that if I were to try to get 5.0GHz i'd need anywhere from 1.40-1.5v

I kinda think 4.8GHz is the sweet spot..

What do you guy think?

It's really up to your preference if your happy and settled on 4.8ghz.

I would like to share my preference so I say climb to 5ghz. With all the hard work putting this rig into water (not to mention the cost!), there's no way I can be happy not hitting 5ghz. We almost have identical setup and it's really not easy hitting 5ghz without passing high 80s (it almost kissed 90c last night) running Prime95 blend tests but we all know that on everyday use (even folding), temps do not go that high.

So don't cuddle your chip, bud. Think of the very sole reason why you put it in water.